All cinema is place out of time. Recording to memory, dissecting frames, fragmenting time are all magical games about mortality and afterlife. I've been making quicktime films since the early 1990's using various hardware and software systems. It wasn't until I got a fast enough computer and the commercial software had evolved to a point of user friendliness that I like, that I started to research the format's structural and conceptual possibilities. These are mostly small work in frame size and duration. They are often studies of single landscape, environment, or event that I videotaped.

The Beat of NY is a composite of several events during the spring, 1999 including demonstrations in support of Abner Louima, the AIDS walk, Israel Day Parade, and one of the Yankee's ticker tape parades layered on top of each other, so that it would seem like all of the groups were united for common agendas.

nr.Itau Station, is a portrait of two children sleeping on the street while people pass through the plaza. The Road to Ithaca is essentially a repetitive loop of cows on the hillside shot from a car window, while a voice chants, keep on mooving. Sore Sight for Restless Eyes is a digital animation of still frames recorded with digital cameras and collaged in photoshop. Paris, Merde and Paris Express are part of a series that includes paintings, prints, and objects in which I use images collected in NYC that refer to France.